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Paulter_ Author

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Can I save my Apple Music Library before cancelling my subscription temporarily?

Hello.

Due to reasons I have no direct control of, soon I will not be able to pay for my App Store subscriptions, including the Music subscription that I’ve been using for years.

I don’t have any iTunes purchases, I only have Apple Music content, playlists and a couple of tracks I downloaded from the internet, that I didn’t find on any music streaming services.

Can I export my entire music library so that I won’t lose anything while I can’t pay for it? I don’t need to listen to it, I just need to preserve it so that I can restore it when I will be able to subscribe again. Is this even possible? If so, how can I do it?

I have a Monterey MacBook and an external drive where I’d like to keep the music library.

It seems like I won’t be able to renew my Music subscription any time soon. But I’m planning to renew it as soon as I can.

Posted on May 2, 2022 12:44 PM

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turingtest2

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Posted on May 2, 2022 4:24 PM

You can export the library as an XML file, but this really only useful if you need to support third party software or want to edit paths as part of a migration. You still need all the media files to make use of it. Apple Music download cease to be useful when your subscription ends and cannot be imported into a library at a later date.

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